Family Vaccine Protection Act

This bill puts the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group that advises the CDC on vaccines, into law with specific rules about who can be on the committee and how it operates. It requires the CDC to follow the committee's vaccine recommendations unless the CDC can show, using the best available science, that a recommendation is not supported, and if the CDC or the Department of Health and Human Services goes against a recommendation, they must explain why and notify Congress. The bill also says that if the government wants to remove a vaccine from the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which helps people seek federal money for injuries they believe were caused by certain vaccines, that removal must be backed up by strong scientific evidence about the vaccine's safety or effectiveness.

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